Thinking Critically Simulation
Credenhill Industries based in Lansing Michigan is a 3 billion dollar telephony company with subsidiaries who sell cola and retail consumer electronics. The successful CEO Linda James has implemented a management development program. Every quarter, three of the brightest young manager's are selected to be placed in charge of different businesses for five months while their performance is supervised and evaluated by Linda James. At the end of the quarter, the manager with the highest score is decorated the Thorough-Cred award. A promising prospect for this prestigious opportunity is a new manager Kimberly Smith. The title of store manager is the position given to her that she must solve the problem presented. This case study will present, and solve the problem, as well as, measure the success of the problem solutions implemented using the nine step decision-making model.
Kimberly is store manager of a Dallas City based consumer electronics store with many issues. Sales have been falling for the past 8 weeks. This is due to the legal action from city council for violating the local disability access laws and the new electronics store that opened up two months ago. Kimberly must be careful not to look at the symptoms or fallacies presented to her, but look at the actual problems. The primary objective is to improve the store's sales.
The problems the manager chose to address immediately are:
1. Addressing the product mix
2. New Store
3. Variable pay
The issues needing attention but not immediately are:
1. Increasing Sales
2. Solving the WAN problem
3. Legal action
The store manager was able to assess all ...